In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.